Howard Schaap

When We Swung from Church Bells

“Callie Feyen’s When We Swung from Church Bells reminds us how stories from the wonderfully strange country of adolescence take root in our lives. Reading it feels like grace seeping in, like healing. Feyen’s voice is not just funny and poignant but faithfully irreverent. She looks into the dark corners for the characters we want to dismiss, from Bellatrix Lestrange to Judas, and makes us see them, and ourselves, anew.”